CSS Flyout menu

**Danopoly** · 04-19-2007, 05:19 AM

http://danspeziale.com/fox/cssmenu5.html

I'm using a menu based on CSS Play's Flyout Menu (http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/fly_drop.html). It's one of the few I've been able to get working in IE 6.

My question is that I'd like the submenu items to be a small inline list. Right now, the menus come out in a row.

I realize that this code wasn't offered on this site, but I thought I would ask.

I appreciate the help!

Thanks,
Dan

**Zamees** · 04-19-2007, 05:46 AM

The code is telling all of the list items to float left. So they will all display till the max width is reached. I changed the width that was 565 to 200, and it then displayed a vertical list. But since I was local, the bg images didn't load, hope it still looks good like that.

**Danopoly** · 04-19-2007, 05:43 PM

Thanks! That did work. Unfortunately, I think I messed up the code, since I can't get it to work in IE 6. (I only had access to IE7 when I was working on it yesterday).

I'm sure that I'll get it working. Thanks again for your help!
Dan

**boogyman** · 04-19-2007, 06:06 PM

chances are that you will need to use a "hack" in which you use Javascript to get it to work in IE6.

IE6 doesnt have good support for css in general, and it doesnt recognize :hover

**Danopoly** · 04-20-2007, 02:01 AM

Here is the menu that Stu Nicholls recommended for me. I have gotten it to work in IE6.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/flyout_4level.html

Does anyone recognize the code that changes the submenu? Whatever I change alters the main menu and the submenu.

Thanks for your help (again).

Dan

**Danopoly** · 04-23-2007, 01:04 AM

I've nearly got the menu working. It works in IE6/IE7 and Firefox.

However I can't seem to separate the submenu hover background from the main menu hover background. Whatever hover background I have on the main menu is shared by the submenu.

I've attached the link below, as well as the full code after that.

http://danspeziale.com/fox/flymenu7.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* ================================================================ 
This copyright notice must be untouched at all times.

The original version of this stylesheet and the associated (x)html
is available at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/flyout_4level.html
Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Stu Nicholls. All rights reserved.
This stylesheet and the associated (x)html may be modified in any 
way to fit your requirements.
=================================================================== */
.menu {
height:150px;
font-size:90&#37;;
margin:25px 0 50px 15px; /* this page only */
}

/* remove all the bullets, borders and padding from the default list styling */
.menu ul {
position:relative;
z-index:500;
padding:0;
margin:0;
list-style-type:none;
width:150px;
}
/* style the list items */
.menu li {
background:#1D5A7E url(images/btn-blank.gif);
height:26px;
/* for IE7 */
float:left;
}
.menu li.sub {background:#d4d8bd url(sub.gif) no-repeat right center;} 

/* get rid of the table */
.menu table {position:absolute; border-collapse:collapse; top:0; left:0; z-index:100; font-size:1em;}

/* style the submenu links */
.menu a, .menu a:visited {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:25px;
	line-height:25px;
	width:149px;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	text-indent:5px;
	border:0 none #1C5C80;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}
/* hack for IE5.5 */
* html .menu a, * html .menu a:visited {width:150px; width:149px;}
/* style the link hover */
* html .menu a:hover {
	color:#000000;
	background:#aa7 url(images/btn-blank-s.gif);
	position:relative;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.menu li:hover {position:relative;}

/* For accessibility of the top level menu when tabbing */
.menu a:active, .menu a:focus {
	color:#000000;
	background:#78A2BF url(images/btn-blank-s.gif);
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

/* retain the hover colors for each sublevel IE7 and Firefox etc */
.menu li:hover > a {
	color:#000000;
	background:#77A1BE url(images/btn-blank-s.gif);
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
}
 
/* hide the sub levels and give them a positon absolute so that they take up no room */
.menu li ul {
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
top:-30px;
/* set up the overlap (minus the overrun) */
left:100px;
/* set up the overrun area */
padding:30px;
/* this is for IE to make it interpret the overrrun padding */
background:transparent url(transparent.gif);
}

/* for browsers that understand this is all you need for the flyouts */
.menu li:hover > ul {visibility:visible;}


/* for IE5.5 and IE6 you need to style each level hover */

/* keep the third level+ hidden when you hover on first level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul ul{
visibility:hidden;
}
/* keep the fourth level+ hidden when you hover on second level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul a:hover ul ul{
visibility:hidden;
}
/* keep the fifth level hidden when you hover on third level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul a:hover ul a:hover ul ul{
visibility:hidden;
}

/* make the second level visible when hover on first level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul {
visibility:visible;
}
/* make the third level visible when you hover over second level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul a:hover ul{ 
visibility:visible;
}
/* make the fourth level visible when you hover over third level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul a:hover ul a:hover ul { 
visibility:visible;
}
/* make the fifth level visible when you hover over fourth level link */
.menu ul a:hover ul a:hover ul a:hover ul a:hover ul { 
visibility:visible;
}


.menu ul ul li {
	background:#ddd;
	color: #000000;
}
 
/* style the submenu links */
.submenu a, .submenu a:link, .submenu a:visited, .submenu a:active {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:20px;
	line-height:20px;
	width:149px;
	color:#000000;
	text-indent:5px;
}
/* style the submenu links */
.submenu a:hover {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:20px;
	line-height:20px;
	width:149px;
	color:#000000;
	text-indent:5px;
}


</style>


</head>

<body>


<div class="menu">
  <ul>

<li><a href="#nogo">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">About us</a></li>
<li><a href="#nogo">Products<!--[if IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
	<ul>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">1</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">2</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">3</a></li>
    <li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">4</a></li>
</ul>
<!--[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
	</li>

<li><a href="#nogo">FAQs<!--[if IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
	<ul>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">1</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">2</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">3</a></li>
    <li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">4</a></li>
</ul>
<!--[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
	</li>


<li><a href="#nogo">Privacy<!--[if IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
	<ul>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">1</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">2</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">3</a></li>
    <li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">4</a></li>
</ul>
<!--[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
	</li>

<li><a href="#nogo">Contact us<!--[if IE 7]><!--></a><!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lte IE 6]><table><tr><td><![endif]-->
	<ul>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">1</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">2</a></li>
	<li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">3</a></li>
    <li class="submenu"><a href="#nogo">4</a></li>
</ul>
<!--[if lte IE 6]></td></tr></table></a><![endif]-->
	</li>
</ul>
</div>



</body>
</html>

I appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks!

**psilos** · 04-23-2007, 08:19 AM

This is happening because submenu inherits this property from the menu..

In order not to have an image in submenu u have to override it by declaring:

Code:

.submenu a:hover {
	background-image:none;
}

or if u want to have a different image:

Code:

.submenu a:hover {
	background-image:url(images/OTHER.gif);
}

**Danopoly** · 04-23-2007, 04:50 PM

Well, I've tried it both ways, with background-image:none; and using a separate image and it's still using the same background image as the main menu. I appreciate the assistance.

Thanks!
Dan

**boogyman** · 04-23-2007, 05:33 PM

Code:

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a{
 background: #000;
}

that will change background of to black, but if you do not have somethign that is an anchor tag then use

Code:

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover {
 background: #000;
}

**Danopoly** · 04-23-2007, 06:36 PM

That didn't work, either. I should say that it works in Firefox, but not in IE6. D'oh!

Adding this code:

Code:

.menu ul li:hover ul li:hover a{
 background: #000;
}

only succeed in changing the background of the submenu in every case except hover. (That is the one that is the real stickler).

I control that using this code:

Code:

.submenu a, .submenu a:link, .submenu a:visited, .submenu a:active {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:20px;
	line-height:20px;
	width:149px;
	color:#000000;
	text-indent:5px;
	background-image:none;
}

/* style the submenu links */
.submenu a:hover {
	display:block;
	text-decoration:none;
	height:20px;
	line-height:20px;
	width:149px;
	color:#000000;
	text-indent:5px;
	background-image:url(/images/menu/btn-submenu-hover.gif);
}

How can I get the submenu to not inherit the menu background? I've tried substituting with an image, with "none" and with a color, but nothing has seemed to work.

Well, I know that I've got to be getting closer. I appreciate your continued support!
Dan

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